Perspective Quotes - Page 14

• The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.

  Lucian

  Soul, Wealth, True Wealth

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.1194, Delphi Classics

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• Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Dwelling, Space

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• We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of my AIDS patients discovered that the last year of their lives was by far their best. Many have said they wouldn't have traded the rich quality of that last year of life for a healthier body. Sadly, it is only when tragedy strikes that most of us begin attending to the deeper aspects of life. It is only then that we attempt to go beyond surface concerns-what we look like, how much money we make, and so forth-to discover what's really important.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Years, Missing, Quality

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• Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

  Plato

  Change, Becoming

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• What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

  Norman Cousins

  Skills, People, Design

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• Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

  Wilferd Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Errors

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• Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Doom And Gloom, People, Different

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• Invest in the "process" rather than the product. Process living neutralizes the depleting and impoverishing effects of chronically living in anticipation. Even when impossible goals occasionally are reached, satisfactions derived from them are invariably disappointing unless the process has given ample satisfaction along the way.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Goal, Way, Satisfaction

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• Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

  Gillian Flynn

  Giving, Drink

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.50, Broadway Books

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• Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Age, Helping, Harmony

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• The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

  Mike Leigh

  Pressure, Good Things, Accepting

  "Mike Leigh at the NFT". Interview with Derek Malcolm, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2002.

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• We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.19, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Keys, Yield

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• You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they've never aligned before because of the sobriety of it all. But it doesn't. Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until you're forced to rewrite them entirely. You can't walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but it's all dead and you know it's going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute.-Emma

  Rachel Wade

  Thinking, Priorities, Sobriety

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• The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Devil, Ancient, Far Away

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.277, Modern Library

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• You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

  Tupac Shakur

  Appreciate

  Tupac Shakur, Afeni Shakur, Jacob Hoye, Karolyn Ali, Walter Einenkel (2003). “Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Luck, Important

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.41, Random House

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• Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.

  Robert Dilts

  Multiple Choice, Choices, Flexibility

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• We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

  Ronald Reagan

  Air, Water, Historical

  "Ronald Reagan's Call to Action". Book by Charles D. Hobbs, 1976.

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• The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Past, Way

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• If you like my music and it brings you emotions whether Joy or Pain, I feel I have done my part to give you insight from my perspective and that it continues. I think music suppose to bring us all together and I am glad I can take you along on this journey.

  Sean Paul

  Pain, Thinking, Journey

  FaceBook post by Sean Paul from Feb 05, 2015

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• Perspective - Use It or Lose It.

  Richard Bach

  Use It Or Lose It, Use, Loses

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Gratitude puts everything into perspective.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Gratitude

  Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.152, Sounds True

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• Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing them would not count as wisdom.

  Robert Nozick

  Knowing, Fundamentals, Littles

  Robert Nozick (1989). “The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations”

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• What is your legacy? Are you intentional about the sort of influence you want to have on the world around you? Being aware of how you want to be remembered gives you a perspective on what is truly important. Leadership is influence, and relationships are the foundation of leadership. Nothing is more predictive of your legacy than the quality of people you surround yourself with.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Giving, Important

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